A nationwide study has found that previously healthy children hospitalized with flu were significantly more likely to die if they were also infected with MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The findings are important because MRSA, which can cause skin and internal infections, is a...

During the swine-flu crisis of 2009, I was living in Germany. I remember bicycling to work down Friedrichstrasse, one of Berlin’s main arteries, passing all the newsstands lined up outside convenience stores. The headlines of Bild, Germany’s best-read and most hysterical tabloid, were printed in...